Osho: The future Messiah

[blazeofglory]

Have you read Osho?

Osho was born in India. He is really a controversial figure and the most debated personality. Osho is a big stream, in fact an ocean of knowledge, and Osho was a fountain of ideas.
If you are really seeker read Osho, his discourses.

If you are westerners you will find his discourses in English ungrammatical and develop a kind of apathy. However once you start penetrating deeper and deeper plumbing the very kernel of his ideas you will find him matchless.

Osho speaks on any subject with authority and he is in fact a reservoir of ideas.
Raise any topic to him you will not return unsatisfied.

There were, in fact still are numberless accusations and allegations leveled against this master.

People dissecting his life into fragmentations and taking a particular fragmentation into account people are judgmental of Osho. Forget the parts and see the beauty of it in perfect combination, Osho appears impeccible.

Few could scale the summit the way Osho did.

Read Osho thoroughly, you will be transformed.

[MaryLupin]

He takes many interesting stances, does Chandra Jain. One that I find interesting is his use of Dionysus and the concept of agnosia.

According to Osho "Dionysius says that one can know God only when one comes to the moment when one knows nothing: the state of not-knowing is the opening of the door. By Agnosia he means exactly the same as the Upanishads mean." This quote is from his Theologia Mystica.

Ideas from Theologia Mystica can be found here (http://www.satrak****a.com/theologia_mystica.htm) and some facts on his movement here (http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/rajneesh.html).

Finally, Osho's homepage (http://www.osho.com/index.cfm).

[vili]

I haven't read Osho for ages, but I think that there are a lot of interesting ideas in those books. There is, however, also quite a lot of over-generalization, misinformation, and what seems to me like provocation simply for provocation's sake.

Generally, I also tended to find Osho's 60s and 70s works (when he was still known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) more interesting than what was published in the 1980s. Towards the end of his life his views seemed to get increasingly bitter, especially when it came to his accusations that he was poisoned by the American government.

Has anyone read the book Bhagwan: The God that Failed by Hugh Milne? I have it sitting in my bookshelf, but haven't yet got around to starting it. There seem to be quite a lot of conflicting views over the book.